Pindar — Greek Poet

Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems however can also seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least until the 1896 discovery of some poems by his rival Bacchylides; comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of only the poet himself. His poetry, while admired by critics, still challenges the casual reader and his work is largely unread among the general public... (wikipedia)

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Learn what you are and be such.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.